premake/premake-core

os.mkdir does not expand ~ to $HOME

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#378 opened on Dec 19, 2015

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Description

I've just came across this behaviour and not sure if we'd like to do something about it.

Basically if you pass a path containing a tilde to some of the OS directory functions they will not expand it to the user's home directory, which I was expecting to work since it seems to be supported in other places in Premake.

Should we fix it or just document these limitations of the API on the wiki?

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Look at how other OS functions in Premake handle tilde expansion (e.g., os.stat or os.chdir) and apply similar logic to os.mkdir. Check for existing utility functions that expand paths.
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